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I meant to type unclip but the tablet was playing silly buggers and wouldn't let me correct it, might take a while to unlick her bra if it was made of edible paper I'd imagine lol. Which one is Rush again? The giant swings? Doesn't that have lap bars?

Why skimp, you can do both at Thorpe. Seriously though, bit peeved we couldn't go to scarefest today, we've all got flu so had to cancel the trip, pondering the idea of going to the fireworks instead.

If the photo layout I've seen on an aussie news site is right it was at the point where the boats are returned back into the station, think how viking river rapids dumps you into the station at legoland, a bigger version of that. The easiest way to explain it is put two paper plates on the worktop, hold one and moderately push the other, chances are the one you're pushing will go under the one your holding, or over it. Factor in the ride, the upturned boat was coming down a ramp so it had momentum, the other boat was jammed, probably being weighted down by the water trying to push it, the boat coming down the ramp would in theory have ridden up the front boats rubber dingy part and the conveyor belt would continue to push the boat (like the plate), it's only going to do two things, flip up on it's end/side, or stay in place until the laws of physics take over or someone stops the conveyor. This doesn't even consider where the people were sitting, four adults and two kids could be loaded unevenly. What I dare not think about is one report I read said they were having to bring in heavy industrial equipment to dismantle the ride and recover the bodies, and another that said some of the victims "suffered immediate injuries inconsistent with continued life" urgh.

Sorry for tge double post but someone in the comments section noticed this and sugested all she needed do was unlick her bra and "push them out either side of the restraint"...

On another forum I'm a member of the admin team got so fedup with them they used the swear filter to swap out "The Daily Mail" for "The Bile-filled Racist Bigots Paper".

It's a Daily Mail article, what did you expect from their readers?

I'm surprised she didn't give herself black eyes the speed she ran to the press over this...

Well lets agree to disagree, obviously the restraints purpose are not solely to keep your head in place, but it helps. I'd love to take an accelerometer on it to see what lateral g is placed on a rider, as we found back in the day it's not the sustained g that is the main cause of injuries, it's the initial spike g that happens in the initial change of direction that does. The head restraint might seem overkill for you, or a fighter pilot, or racing driver who is used to experiencing high lateral g, but lets not forget the vast majority of people that ride these rides are not built for it and for the best part, the most strenuous part of movement their neck gets is moving from one screen to another in their office, without the restraint I'm sure more people would break the necks on those corners, it may not be the sole use, but it's an important one. BTW TTP has Saw's GForce listed as 4.5, but it does say what type of g it is.

Perhaps those rides have less forces involved, the Iron Shark POV on YouTube certainly doesn't look as rough as Saw. By the way, I didn't belittle you, I explained to you why, in my opinion, I felt that there was over the shoulder restraints on that particular ride, you see around 25 years ago I worked in an industry that suffered a spate of basal skull fractures, the research that went into finding a solution was extremely detailed and concluded that anything over about 5G the risk of detaching your skull from your spine was increased in a nonlinear way to the point that without something to restrict the head moving, it was almost guaranteed for everyday Joe public. They found their own solution (since it wasn't rollercoaster related) and that solution is still in use today, so I do have a little bit of experience on the subject, if you think everybody who disagrees with you is being patronising I suggest you grow thicker skin because there will be plenty throughtout your life, especially when it comes to your own safety. There is a scientific reason why over the shoulder restraints are used, it's not done just to annoy you.

What fight?

Have you got a ad/popup blocker running? For whatever reason and despite knowing 75% of the internet hate them, a lot of companies still insist on using them. Or their site could just be broke, seen that happen before too.

Yet again Einstein is proven correct.

Maybe they're installing some equipment to fix the overheating problem with the headsets? Like err air conditioning? OK, it's Merlin, I'll show myself out...

So do I, there's no need to assume I was talking about them all just because I said they in reference to idiots on the park.

And they wonder why the older generation refer to them by not very nice terms.

Should have gone for a Minions, they could have populated the ride with stuff from the film, every kid I know loves the T-Rex, the Vampire etc. They could keep the kids/adult humour/jokes style of the original ride and who doesn't find a farting/burping yellow blob with googles and a high pitched laugh amusing.

Thanks, so we're getting "Boris Johnson - The Ride" then, fantastic...

Could someone please tell me what a fraking Gruffalo is? I havn't got a clue, I seem to have skipped whatever craze this is, my son doesn't know either and he's still just about their target audience. Now Hotel Transylvania I get, and it would be a good fit with Vampire next door, but Gruffalo????? Oh and LOL at the pic above, did they not realise how much that looks like Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf.

How were the queue lengths for the coasters?

Hadn't they stopped that? I thought once one side disconnected the call was terminated after a few second now.

I'll take your Conservatives and raise you the American Presidential Election.

At Summer Nights this year someone in the swarm station shouted bogey (it was supposed to be a jokey call sign to others in their group) within a few seconds everybody was shouting it including the guy in the control box over the PA. Christ knows what anybody must have thought outside hearing "bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey" being chanted over and over.

Still doesn't mean the phone misdialed or your carrier mis-read the signal, popular to contrary belief modern technology can still make mistakes

You miss-dialed originally, the company involved buy up similar numbers to popular ones and put that message on to call the premium rate number for help, a bit like how if you miss-type a popular website you'll often get redirected to an ad filled site. Your family member must be unlucky enough to have a number similar to a popular one, we used to have a number that was one digit different to the local taxi company and got 10+ calls a day before the number got changed. Thanks though, I should probably warn my dad about this, although at 75 he's still pretty savvy and picks up on most scams, he's had a lot of problems lately with his line so might be fooled by it if he mucks up a number. He once had a problem with his computer and got one of these "I'm from Microsoft to help with your PC problem" type calls, he understood it was a scam but couldn't work out how they knew, just couldn't accept it was blind luck.

Scary and Swarm backwards are never something that should be in the same sentence, I nearly fell asleep the first time I went on it.